This is an analysis of the poem The Man Who Was Away that begins with:
The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow,
She told the lawyer man her tale in tones of deepest woe. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eXXX aaee XbeX aXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101010101 11010101010101 111010101110001 11010101010111 11010101110100 11110101010101 11011101110101 11010101010101 1001111101111101 1111010111110 11010101010100 110101011100100 01010011010101 1001010100111101 110100110110001 11010101011001 1010100010101010 010100011011101 11010101111101 110101111100100 11010111111111 111101011111010 10110101110111 01000101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and, there's are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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